Onthophagus (Onthophagus) acuminatus Harold, 1880

Chamorro, William, Marin-Armijos, Diego, senjo, Angelico & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2019, Scarabaeinae dung beetles from Ecuador: a catalog, nomenclatural acts, and distribution records, ZooKeys 826, pp. 1-343 : 174-177

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) acuminatus Harold, 1880 Plate 39A

Onthophagus acuminatus Harold, 1880a: 30 (original description. Type locality: Fusagasugá, Ambalema und Muzo; auch von Colon).

Onthophagus acuminatus : Gillet 1911a: 204 (complete list of species); Boucomont and Gillet 1927: 204 (catalog of species); Boucomont 1932: 307 (characters in key), 320 (distribution); Paulian 1936b: 506 (redescription); Blackwelder 1944: 211 (list of species from Latin America); Contreras 1951: 223 (cited for Colombia); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 564 (characters in key); Howden and Young 1981: 98 (characters in key), 104 (redescription); Zunino and Halffter 1997: 161 (list of species); Kohlmann and Solís 2001: 167 (characters in key, redescription); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 17 (cited for Panama); Morón 2003: 71 (cited for Mexico); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 94 (catalog of species, distribution); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 174 (complete list of species); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 8 (cited for Costa Rica); Delgado and Curoe 2014: 66 (characters in key, cited for Panama); Rossini et al. 2018b: 9 (list of species of the curvicornis complex).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) acuminatus : Chamorro et al. 2018: 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Onthophagus acuminatus Harold, 1880. The type is deposited at the MNHN (see Kohlmann and Solís 2001: 167). Locality: Panamá, Colon, Champion, not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Records examined.

BOLIVAR: Bosque Protector Filo Palanga, 970 m (8 specimens MUTPL). CARCHI: Tobar Donoso, 300 m (3 specimens MECN). COTOPAXI: Guasaganda km 4, 500 m (11 specimens MQCAZ); Las Pampas, 1200 m (8 specimens MQCAZ). EL ORO: Uzhcurrumi, 500 m (1 specimen CEMT; 17 specimens MQCAZ). ESMERALDAS: Calle Mansa (3 specimens CEMT; 45 specimens MQCAZ); Chispero (11 specimens CEMT; 57 specimens MQCAZ; 2 specimens MECN); Colón del Ónzole (36 specimens CEMT; 65 specimens MQCAZ; 3 specimens MECN); Gualpi, El Pajonal (11 specimens CEMT; 45 specimens MQCAZ; 1 specimens MECN); Gualpi (1 specimen CEMT; 18 specimens MQCAZ); Jeyambi PMFC (5 specimens CEMT; 18 specimens MQCAZ); Majua (7 specimens CEMT; 48 specimens MQCAZ); Palma Real (2 specimens MECN; 42 specimens MQCAZ); Playa de Oro (4 specimens CEMT; 81 specimens MQCAZ); Playa de Oro, La Tabla (7 specimens CEMT; 67 specimens MQCAZ); Playa de Oro, Padre Santo (21 specimens CEMT; 85 specimens MQCAZ; 4 speicmens MECN); Playa de Oro, Pote (4 specimens CEMT; 48 specimens MQCAZ; 7 specimens MECN); Tsejpi, Charco Grande (3 specimens CEMT; 28 specimens MQCAZ; 3 specimens MECN). IMBABURA: Lita, 680 m (18 specimens MQCAZ). LOS RÍOS: 47 km S de Santo Domingo, Río Palenque Biológical Station, 200-250 m (205 specimens MQCAZ); Río Palenque Station (44 specimens CEMT; 79 specimens MQCAZ). MANABÍ: Embalse Daule Peripa B.P Carrizal Chone, 110 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Puerto López, Las Tunas, 200 m (1 specimen MUTPL). PICHINCHA: Río Guayllabamba Llurimaguas, 290 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Río Guayllabamba Tortugo, 450 m (3 specimens MUTPL). SANTA ELENA: Olón, 10 m (8 specimens CEMT; 29 specimens MUTPL). SANTO DOMINGO DE LOS TSÁCHILAS: Santo Domingo, Puerto Limón, 340 m (23 specimens MUTPL).

Literature records.

GUAYAS: Bucay ( Boucomont 1932: 320). PICHINCHA: without specific locality ( Boucomont 1932: 320).

Temporal data.

Collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests, coastal lowland semi-deciduous forests, and coastal evergreen foothill forests from 8-1200 m a.s.l. Collected manually and with pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.